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If I get this in before a 'heart', I'll be surprised, the sentimental old buzzards that we all are, over here at SMS, but I'...

  Purchase [ Velvet Underground ] Star Maker Machine has been around Halloween-themed things before (including Trick or Treat back in 2018)...

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  Bow Wow Wow : I Want Candy [ purchase ]  In 1980, Malcolm McLaren, who was either officially or unofficially managing Adam and the Ants ...

 I have never quite worked out whether my love for 10,000 Maniacs stemmed more from their name than their music. Certainly it was the name t...

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Woah, such a tough project, this one, trying to come up with a theme with teeth, thinking my way through what if electricity had yet to be i...